Trump: A Martyr to Black Americans?

Dom Lucre, on X, whose caption reads, “My President, My Nigga.”

One week before he was falsely convicted on 34 counts of committing a crime that was nowhere identified, one week before he was labeled a “convicted felon” by a Biden administration so corrupt and evil it would seek to win re-election by subverting the justice system, Donald J. Trump showed up in the Bronx.

Rumors to the contrary — fanned by AOC, who represents the Bronx in Congress and who predicted it would rain on former President Trump’s parade — some 25,000 people — black, white, Hispanic — came out under bright skies to see this outsized, energized symbol of the American comeback. They wore MAGA hats. Unctuous white reporters who assumed their color would dictate their votes asked why they were there. They replied that they were not there because of their race but because they were Americans, because they believe Trump can rescue the country Biden has ruined with rampant inflation and illegal migrants and foreign wars and corrupt alliances.

Two rappers went on stage to salute him. “Make America Great Again,” one said, to roars. One mother talked about how she had lost two sons during Biden’s term — one to crime, another to a Fentayl overdose. She talked about her grocery bill, and how some days she has to choose between food and laundry detergent. They roared for her too. Trump said, “Whatever the hell color you are, … we are all Americans.”

Less than a week later, Donald J. Trump, 45th president of the United States, front runner in the polls for this year’s election, survivor of two impeachment attempts and multiple CIA plots to undermine him, was convicted of charges that are not, in any cogent legal analysis, a crime, let alone a felony. It has been called a Soviet show trial and the White House made no effort to hide its glee — sending Robert DeNiro to trash talk Trump, still-gagged from responding, in front of the courthouse in New York, prepping President Biden to address the nation from the White House because, as the administration insisted, there was nothing political about it. Nothing at all.

In their hubris and severe Trump Derangement Syndrome — Whoopi Goldberg thought it cute to announce his conviction 34 times — Dems miscalculated. They thought they could topple King Kong with a paper cut. In the first 24 hours after the news broke, the Trump campaign raised $53 million — one third of it from people who had never before donated. And when over the weekend he walked into a UFC 302 fight in New Jersey, the roars were deafening, “We Love Trump” competing with “F… Joe Biden.” UFC fighter Kevin Holland celebrated his middleweight championship win by jumping the cage to shake hands with Trump, endorsing his fellow fighter.

Minnesota Democratic congressman Dean Phillips was so alarmed by all the public support for Trump he asked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pardon him, because otherwise the blatant persecution might just elect him. “You think pardoning is stupid?” said Phillips. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid.”

Among African Americans, the support for the convicted former president is especially poignant. In the view of many, he had been railroaded and imprisoned for being himself — brash, full of testosterone and instincts, a man’s man. “Trump got did dirty,” said one caller named TK to top radio show The Breakfast Club. “I don’t trust the system at all… especially after being through the system myself… After you get railroaded by the system, and you see that when you walk in the courtroom, if they want you to be guilty, you guilty. I rock with Trump, he’s way better than Biden.” Another black man, @HamletGarcia17, said “whether you like Donald Trump or not — and I don’t — it is essential I vote for him because of Biden’s weaponization of the justice system. “If they can do this to a former president of the United States,” he said, “imagine people, imagine what they can do to us. I’m all in. Trump 2024.”

Bill Clinton had sex with a subordinate in the Oval Office and lied about it under oath, he later said to protect his wife’s feelings. He was impeached, but not convicted. In fact neither he nor his wife — who was fined by the Federal Election Commission for not properly disclosing that she used campaign funds to pay for the false dirty dossier meant to tarnish Trump — has ever been convicted of anything. But Trump, who also wanted to protect his wife, was convicted of 34 counts of giving hush money to a porn star — which is not illegal — based on the testimony of a convicted liar.

In his lifetime Biden has proven himself a bigot, and black voters have a long social memory of his past. In the Senate, Biden repeatedly used the n-word, collaborated with known segregationists like James Eastland and Robert Byrd, authored the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that put millions of black Americans behind bars. It was signed into law by President Clinton.

Now he is hemorrhaging black voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll of six battleground states, including Georgia, found Biden has support from 60% of Black voters and Trump, while Trump is backed by 20% of Black voters. Biden won Black voters in the 2020 election by a 87%-12% margin, according to exit polls. Re Roll Call:

Desperate to reclaim their historic loyalty, Biden has embarked on an outreach to black voters, including graduates at Morehouse College, a historically all black male university. In a commencement address, he said that Republicans “peddle a fiction, a character about what being a man is about − tough talk, abusing power, bigotry. Their idea of being a man is toxic.” He has repeatedly tarred Trump as a racist, a white supremacist. His wife, on paper the First Lady of all the nation, went on the View to flame hatred, a dangerous precedent that could lead to more left-wing violence.

“For God’s sake, talk about things getting worse. Can you imagine if we put any more Republicans on the Supreme Court?” Jill Biden asked, her eyes wide. “No! We will lose all of our rights! So we’re talking about women’s rights, gay rights. … We will lose all our rights and freedoms.” As with most of the Left’s pronouncements, it’s as if Dems look in the mirror and accuse opponents of their own failures, their own tactics.

But Biden’s actions speak louder than his words, as the weaponization of justice continues. His Justice Department is putting 75-year-old women in prison for praying in front of abortion clinics. His Attorney General Merrick Garland has just classified at the highest level the audio tapes of Biden’s incoherent interview with Special Counsel Hur over two days, locking the tapes away in a SCIF. Nothing to hear there.

This is the issue that touches African American voters where they live. Almost every black family has experienced the heavy boot of false imprisonment, or unfair justice. In Trump they see a fighter, battling the Establishment, taking blow after blow. For some, this is enough to disregard a nearly 100-year history of African Americans, who in 1936 left the Republican party of Lincoln for the Democrat party of FDR.

How marvelous, how ironic, that black Americans — who with their abolitionist allies forced this nation to abandon slavery after the bloodiest war in our history — may once again determine the future of our country. Will black voters unshackle us from the corrupt, tyrannical Biden administration that has opened our borders to criminals and drugs, crippled our energy supply and our economy, denied us free speech and religion, and pushed this once proud country to the edge of oblivion? I pray.